Faith, Doubt & Reimagination
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Hi, I’m Ayo and this is my story. In my early 20s, I was a trained social worker and my work regularly spilled out into the evenings and weekends. I also served on a number of different teams at church 3-4 nights a week. I served 6 or so hours on a Sunday and frequent […] The post Small but Mighty Shifts: Burnout, Boundaries & Becoming appeared first on Nomad Podcast .
My stroke marked a profound rupture in my life. Once independent and active, I now live with severe physical disability, epilepsy, and reliance on a wheelchair. Alongside physical loss, there is erosion of confidence, independence, social role, and self‑worth. Everyday activities require assistance, and I am confronted daily by what I can no longer do. […] The post Peter Ellis – God in the Mess:…
The Christianity I grew up with was fuelled by fear. This religion didn’t help me come to terms with my innate fear of separation and death; it actually pushed me even deeper into fear, making it infinite and personal through the doctrine of hell. During the first twenty years of my life I was tormented […] The post The Fear and the End of the Fear appeared first on Nomad Podcast .
The tranquillity of the park where I sat in my favourite coffee shop with my two-year-old, did not reflect how I was feeling. As I gathered our things together, after a failed attempt for a moment of peace over my coffee, I heard it clearly. “Slow down.” The words came from deep inside. They stopped […] The post Mary – Slow Down appeared first on Nomad Podcast .
What started as a fun outing soon became a weekly tradition. Every Sunday morning, my parents and I would go to the beach. We never missed a week. There, we sang children’s songs about the Sea and listened to exciting stories about people who had experienced adventures at Sea. If there was time left, we […] The post Matthijs Vlaardingerbroek – The Parable of the Sea, the Beach and All That…
It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. Black Elk Sometimes opportunities come along that on the one hand seem totally outlandish but also offer a chance to grow and reframe old ways of thinking. My […] The post Carolyn – How a Plant Medicine Experience Has Supported My Faith Journey appeared first on…
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves. – Mary Oliver In the dusky twilight of Alaska, my faith grew in the arms of my father’s faith. I […] The post Alissa Rose – You Do Not Have to be Good appeared first on Nomad Podcast .
When I left the UK in 1987, as a 21-year-old atheist, to hitch-hike around America for the second time, I was in search of ‘truth’: on the one hand envisaging finding it by meditating on a mountaintop, on the other hand not really believing ‘truth’ existed. I’d previously run away twice, including ‘eloping’ with a […] The post Roger Nuttall – Still Coming Home appeared first on Nomad Podcast .
Church was always going to be my thing. My mother raised her hand at Billy Graham’s London crusade in ’54, and her life was never the same again. Too soon after, she was making another big choice; delaying chemotherapy until after I was born. Her last words six months later were filled with prayers of […] The post Andy Read – Five Days in France appeared first on Nomad Podcast .
As I sit down to write this, I’ve become very much aware of the fact that I’m in the twilight days of my 20’s…and I’ve spent 17 years of my life doing *something* in the church. That’s more than half my life. *Insert exacerbated expletive here* This is, to those that knew me growing up, […] The post Tim Annan – It Started with a Cup of Tea… appeared first on Nomad Podcast .
